Christian Smith
Why magic replaced God for millennials
Has religion gone the way of the typewriter?
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain
Peston’s inbox
It’s all nonsense, and none of it happened, and I can’t remember it, and it’s not what it looks like
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing